Trends Forecaster Gerald Celente Sees Fascism: America Being Looted by Oligarchs

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"US economy is like a ruthless mafia ripping-off the American public. The US is being looted.
"US economy is no longer capitalism, it’s oligarchies and fascism."

Thoughts of Love Eases Pain

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"The very thought of you … the mere idea of you" —from the song "The Very Thought of You" by Ray Noble

Can the mere thought of your loved one reduce your pain?

Yes, according to a new study by UCLA psychologists that underscores the importance of social relationships and staying socially connected.

The study, which asked whether simply looking at a photograph of your significant other can reduce pain, involved 25 women, mostly UCLA students, who had boyfriends with whom they had been in a good relationship for more than six months.

The women received moderately painful heat stimuli to their forearms while they went through a number of different conditions. In one set of conditions, they viewed photographs of their boyfriend, a stranger and a chair.

"When the women were just looking at pictures of their partner, they actually reported less pain to the heat stimuli than when they were looking at pictures of an object or pictures of a stranger," said study co-author Naomi Eisenberger, assistant professor of psychology and director of UCLA's Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory. "Thus, the mere reminder of one's partner through a simple photograph was capable of reducing pain."

"This changes our notion of how social support influences people," she added. "Typically, we think that in order for social support to make us feel good, it has to be the kind of support that is very responsive to our emotional needs. Here, however, we are seeing that just a photo of one's significant other can have the same effect."

In another set of conditions, each woman held the hand of her boyfriend, the hand of a male stranger and a squeeze ball. The study found that when women were holding their boyfriends' hands, they reported less physical pain than when they were holding a stranger's hand or a ball while receiving the same amount of heat stimulation.

"This study demonstrates how much of an impact our social ties can have on our experience and fits with other work emphasizing the importance of social support for physical and mental health," Eisenberger said.

One practical piece of advice the authors give is that the next time you are going through a stressful or painful experience, if you cannot bring a loved one with you, a photo may do.

Couples That Fight Rationally Can Ease Stressful Impact

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Couples who bring thoughtful words to a fight release lower amounts of stress-related proteins, suggesting that rational communication between partners can ease the impact of marital conflict on the immune system.

"Previous research has shown that couples who are hostile to each other show health impairments and are at greater risk of disease," said Jennifer Graham, assistant professor of biobehavioral health, Penn State. "We wanted to know if couples who use thoughtfulness and reasoning in the midst of a fight incur potential health benefits."

Individuals in a stressful situation -- as in a troubled relationship -- typically have elevated levels of chemicals known as cytokines. These proteins are produced by cells in the immune system and help the body mount an immune response during infection. However, abnormally high levels of these proteins are linked to illnesses such as cardiovascular disease, type-2 diabetes, arthritis and some cancers.

"Typically, if you bring people to a lab and put them under stress, either by engaging them in a conflict or giving them a public speaking task, you can see an increase in proinflammatory cytokines such as Interleukin-6 (Il-6) and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha)," explained Graham.

Using data collected by Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser, distinguished university professor, S. Robert Davis Chair of Medicine and professor of psychiatry and psychology, Ohio State University College of Medicine; and Ronald Glaser, director, Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, Kathryn & Gilbert Mitchell Chair in Medicine and professor of molecular virology, immunology and medical genetics, the researchers looked at levels of Il-6 and TNF-alpha in 42 married heterosexual couples both before and after marital discussion tasks.

"We specifically looked at words that are linked with cognitive processing in other research and which have been predictive of health in studies where people express emotion about stressful events," explained Graham. "These are words like -- think, because, reason, why -- that suggest people are either making sense of the conflict or at least thinking about it in a deep way."

For the study, the 42 couples made two separate overnight visits over two weeks. "We found that, controlling for depressed mood, individuals who showed more evidence of cognitive discussion during their fights showed smaller increases in both Il-6 and TNF-alpha cytokines over a 24-hour period," said Graham, whose findings appear in the current issue of Health Psychology.

During their first visit, couples had a neutral, fairly supportive discussion with their spouse. But during the second visit, couples focused on the topic of greatest contention between them.

"An interviewer figured out ahead of time what made the man and woman most upset in terms of their relationship and we gave each person a turn to talk about that issue," said Graham.

Researchers measured the levels of cytokines before and after the two visits and used linguistic software to determine the percentage of certain types of words from a transcript of the conversation.

The researchers' results suggest that people who used more cognitive words during the fight showed a smaller increase in the Il-6 and TNF-alpha. Cognitive words used during the neutral discussion had no effect on the cytokines.

When they averaged the couples' cognitive words during the fight, they found a low average translated into a steeper increase in the husbands' Il-6 over time. There were no effects on the TNF-alpha. However, neither couple's nor spouse's cognitive word use predicted changes in wives' Il-6, or TNF-alpha levels for either wives or husbands.

Graham speculates that women may be more adept at communication and perhaps their cognitive word use had a bigger impact on their husbands. Wives were also more likely than husbands to use cognitive words.

Lou Dobbs, Unemployed Xenophobe

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He was the finest newsman the world has ever known and now CNN has let him go. The tragedy is nearly inexpressable, but WorldNetDaily founder Joseph Farah gives it a good try:


What makes Lou Dobbs so special is his independence and fearlessness. Dobbs clearly set his own agenda. He had no interest in the "conventional wisdom" of his industry. Dobbs thinks like a real American newsman – a throwback to an age when journalists actually believed they were watchdogs of government and asked tough questions in the interests of the people.

When virtually his entire profession and elites in all the other political and cultural institutions of our time were making excuses for allowing tens of millions of illegal aliens to occupy our country, Lou Dobbs was alone in his focus on the issue critical to America's safety and security.

When virtually his entire profession and elites in all the other political and cultural institutions of our time were making excuses for Barack Obama's unwillingness to prove his constitutional eligibility to serve in the White House by simply showing the American people his long-form birth certificate, Lou Dobbs was alone in asking why.


That's right, Lou Dobbs was the "one reason to tune in to CNN," birther Farah tells us. Joe's a big fan, even offering Lou a job at his big pile of crazy he calls a website. "Let me be the first to say I would be proud to work with Lou Dobbs," Farah writes. "He's got his pick of assignments here at WND."

I'm sure he probably has something else in mind. But if Lou Dobbs ever wants to cover the unveiling of the Ark of the Covenant, I'm sure he'll know where to go. Some things are beneath even Lou Dobbs.

I'm guessing about that, by the way. There's no evidence to support the idea.

"Over the past six months, it's become increasingly clear that strong winds of change have begun buffeting this country and affecting all of us," Dobbs said on his final show. "And some leaders in media, politics and business have been urging me to go beyond the role here at CNN and to engage in constructive problem solving." The evidence suggests that those "leaders in media, politics and business" were CNN president Joe Klein and the "urging" of Dobbs to go "beyond the role here at CNN" came in the form of a demand to clean out his desk.

"Months ago the president of CNN/U.S., Jonathan Klein, offered a choice to Lou Dobbs, the channel’s most outspoken anchor," New York Times reported Wednesday. "Mr. Dobbs could vent his opinions on radio and anchor an objective newscast on television, or he could leave CNN." Whether Lou quit or was canned is probably a matter of interest only to Lou, but it's clear that Lou Dobbs could only have remained at CNN if he stopped being crazy old Lou Dobbs. Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert probably put it best, when he said that Dobbs was leaving CNN to "spend more time misinforming his family."

Because, man, did Lou ever have a talent for catapulting the propaganda. There was no conspiracy theory so insane, so obviously absurd, that he wouldn't report it. In 2006, Dobbs told his audience, "There are some Mexican citizens and some Mexican- Americans who want to see California, New Mexico and other parts of the Southwestern United States given over to Mexico. These groups call it the reconquista, Spanish for reconquest. And they view the millions of Mexican illegal aliens in particular entering the United States as potentially an army of invaders to achieve that takeover."

While I don't doubt that there are Latinos who think this would be a good idea, I think there might be maybe four of five of them. As threats to national sovereignty go, this isn't one, and as movements go, it's not. Yet Dobbs went out of his way to associate the reconquista "movement" with the Mexican flag, ensuring that every time some nutjob Dobbs fan saw a Cinco de Mayo celebration, they'd think they were seeing a bunch of radicals bent on conquering a big chunk of the United States. From the transcript of that show:


(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): In San Diego today, another sea of Mexican flags echoing the nationalist theme in protests earlier this week.

UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

ROMANS: Chants celebrating La Raza, the race, and signs proclaiming the true history of the Southwest. A Southwest they say still belongs to Mexico.

Long downplayed as a theory of the radical ethnic fringe, the la reconquista, the reconquest, the reclamation, the return, it's resonating with some on the streets. It's the idea that the Southwest United States is stolen land called Aztlan.


Rep. Dana Rohrbacher, a shameless xenophobe, helped whip up the hysteria, claiming that this was pretty much the equivalent of having al Qaeda running the bodega down the street. "And now we see that hundreds of thousands of these people, if not several million, are willing to wave the Mexican flag and not seek assimilation in the United States, but are instead declaring their allegiance to Mexico while here illegally. This can cause huge problems," he told Romans. "If only a fringe element of them want to commit acts of violence in the future to -- in order to push their claim of legitimacy in terms of their right to this area that we now occupy in the United States, it can cause great damage and loss of life in our country."

Oddly, going on four years later, the big illegal Mexican alien terrorist attack has yet to happen. But I suppose it's only a matter of time. In the meantime, they'll just have to satisfy themselves with spreading leprosy.

And that's just a sliver of what was wrong with Dobbs and his show. There's some speculation that Dobbs will follow fellow CNN-alumnus Glenn Beck over to FOX News, but it's hard to see why they'd want him -- Lou's rating's were tanking. My best guess -- and it is a guess -- is that he'll join some nonprofit organization in some way. Perhaps even one that doesn't have anything to do with the lurking Mexican Menace within our borders. Or maybe he'll just make do with his radio show.

In any case, CNN is better off without him. News is news, opinion is opinion, but Lou Dobbs was just a great big lie machine. A hatemonger, a fearmonger, a conspiracy theorist, and a fraud, he'd be a much better fit over at FOX.

But I have my doubts that even they would take him. Maybe WingNutDaily is really the best shot he has. After all, Joseph Farah obviously has a huge man-crush on him.


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Wisco's News Roundup for 11/13/09

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Hey, keep it in your pants, buddy!

-Headline of the day-
"RNC to opt out of abortion coverage."

This is a pretty complex issue, so let's see if I can encapsulate it for you; the Republican National Committee's employee health insurance plan used to cover elective abortion. This was the worst thing ever, because it only encouraged Republican women -- who are notoriously flighty and overly emotional -- to get abortions just for the fun of it. Of course, it also made the Republican Party a big bunch of hypocrites.

Politico got wind of this and published it on the interwebs for all the world to see and, boy howdy, were Republicans ever embarrassed. "Money from our loyal donors should not be used for this purpose," RNC chairman Michael Steele said in a statement. "I don't know why this policy existed in the past, but it will not exist under my administration. Consider this issue settled."

That's it, no more abortion coverage for lady employees of the Republican National Committee. It makes baby Jesus cry.

Of course, this sucks a little bit for said Republican ladies (or ladies covered by Republican men's plans). But what are you going to do? You can't really expect the Republican Party to do a 180 on the issue and get all rational all of a sudden. Besides, when has the GOP ever given a damn about workers anyway?

I guess Republicans better get used to only having sex when they want to have kids. And no wanking it guys, that makes baby Jesus cry too. (Politico)


-Cartoon time with Mark Fiore-
Hey kids, want to learn a different language? Try Tea-Bag, it's super easy!


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Remember, Hitler wanted fries too! (MarkFiore.com)


-FOX in a box-
Despite getting busted for it, Sean Hannity continues to use doctored footage on his show.


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That crazy nut! He'll never learn... (Bad Reporter)

Project Savior's Fantastic Future Friday: Space Based Solar Power II

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In last weeks post Space Based Solar Power I left out some of the details in order to make it concise. Eventually I will merge all my posts on this topic into one long article but here is the next phase of Space Based Solar Power.

With more research and interest in Solar Cells they will become both more efficient and weigh less. It is a reasonable expectation that within 15 years solar cells will go from 14% efficient to at least 40% efficient (the range that the newest generation of solar cells are achieving), and that they will become lighter, hopefully half the weight of current ones.

With Solar Cells being in that range they will not only be useful for Space Based electricity but of course down here on Earth, as they become the roofing standard for south facing roofs.

Solar Cells on Earth have one big problem, night. Although battery efficiency will get better storing all the power you need to get through the night adds tremendously to the cost of Solar Power.

They also run into the problem that it is more efficient for heavy industries to gather together, so recycled steel can go straight to the steel pressing plant that sends their product straight to the assembly line, ect. It also allows industries to have a pool of semi-skilled workers available.

Without radically altering the lifestyle humans have been enjoying since the invention of fire we would still need a large power plant to handle these problems, that’s where the Space Based Solar Power Plants come in.

The best location for a Space Based Solar Power Plant to be built would be in a Geo-synchronous Orbit (GEO), high enough that it’s orbit around the Earth is exactly 24 hours, so it appears to be over the same spot at all times.

However it takes a lot more fuel to achieve GEO than LEO (Low Earth Orbit) so the first launch would need to include a upper, upper stage that was basically a ion propulsion Tug.

Ion propulsion uses electricity to speed up ions to extremely high speeds, making them very efficient but they have low acceleration. They also need a source of electricity.

As the space based solar power plant is built, it will use a super heavy lift rocket (like the Ares V) to lift small solar power plants that can generate power in the megawatt scale. As it's being built the power generated can be used to power the ion propulsion Tug, slowly lifting the parts from LEO to GEO.

The first few sections would be lifted months apart. Not only to give the tug time to lift the parts but for testing and problem solving phases. As more parts are lifted into GEO they can supply more energy to build the plant speeding up the process.

After the first power plant is built the amount of energy that Earth needs from it will be uneven with homes and businesses using Earth based Solar during the day and Space Based Solar at night, so the Space Solar Power Plant could be used to power the ion propulsion tug during the day lifting the parts and equipment needed to place a permanent base on the Moon.

One of the things that could be sent would be equipment to mine for Xenon and Argon to use as a propellant for the Ion Propulsion Tug. With power and fuel not having to be lifted from Earths surface the cost of moving material beyond LEO would become negligible.

Once robotic space exploration is freed from having to rely on fuel from Earth the Space Based Solar Power Plant could be used on something that would give mankind its greatest benefit. That power could be used to capture a Near Earth Asteroid.

Sending a probe to land on a small one and a half mile diameter Metallic Near Earth Asteroid it could unfurl a solar sail made of reflective Mylar, the power from the Solar Power Plants could be used to power lasers to steer it into Earth orbit.

Once it is within Earth’s orbit it could be mined for it’s metals, an Asteroid that size would have over $50 Trillion worth of Iron and precious metals such as gold and platinum, or roughly the World’s Gross Domestic Product for 2007.

With minor advancements in robotic manufacturing and unlimited energy from Space Based Solar Power Plants the whole system of scarcity based Economics will be a thing of the past as anything you can dream up, you can just draw into a diagram and robots will have all the necessary materials to make it for you within days.

Imagination and Creativity will become the new currency, not gold and gems. The human mind will be the most valuable commodity as simple stuff like iron, gold, gems become as cheap as air.

This will bring a whole new dawn for civilization and a fantastic future.

Today's Headlines (Democracy Now) 11/13/09

• Alleged 9/11 Conspirators to Be Tried in NY
• US Seizes Mosques, Buildings for Alleged Iran Ties
• Gates “Appalled” by Admin Leaks on Afghan War
• Obama Rejects Visit to Hiroshima, Nagasaki
• Ft. Hood Suspect Charged, Faces Death Penalty
• On 10th Anniversary of Glass-Steagall Repeal, Watchdog Says Bailout “Almost Certainly” Will Result in Taxpayer Loss
• Fed to Bar Overdraft Fees
• Reid Mulls Medicare Payroll Tax for Top Earners
• Insurance Giant Recruits Employees to Oppose Public Option
• RNC Orders Insurance Plan to Stop Covering Abortions
• Pakistan Denies Report of China Nuclear Ties
• Report: Admin Considers Short-Term Climate Pact

Portable Torture Developed by Israeli Researchers

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Torture is getting cheaper and more portable so that the poorest governments of the world can have easy access to all the inhumane fun.

Grant

Source: Raw Story

'Torture at the touch of a button'

Israeli researchers have developed a portable device that causes excruciating sensations of burning and can be built for just $250,000, raising fears that even the world's poorest, most oppressive governments will now be able to use advanced non-lethal weapons on their civilian populations.

The Man-Portable Active Denial System, developed by researchers at the College of Judea and Samaria, can beam a microwave ray that causes skin surface to heat up to 130 degrees Fahrenheit, causing the nerve cells in the skin to think they're on fire.

In tests of a similar project by the US military, "nobody [was] able to stay in the beam for more than a few seconds," writes David Hambling at Wired.com.

Reports of the US military developing a burn ray have been around for some time, but the US's Active Denial System is a nine-ton machine that has not yet come out of testing, for technical and political reasons, Hambling reports.....MORE

David Icke: The Spiritual Awakening of Humanity

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Economic Recovery Update: 2 More Banks Shut Down (Total 122 this Year)

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Green shoots are popping up all over. Amazing what trillions of dollars given to the financial elite can do for the economic health of a nation.

Thanks President Obama/Bush and the Republicrats!

Grant

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Regulators on Friday shut down two Florida banks, boosting to 122 the number of U.S. bank failures this year as loan defaults rise in the worst financial climate in decades.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over Orion Bank, based in Naples, Fla., with about $2.7 billion in assets and $2.1 billion in deposits, and Sarasota-based Century Bank, with $728 million in assets and $631 million in deposits. Source: Yahoo Finance

The Revolt of the Fifth Estate--The People

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The fourth Estate, Main Stream Press, is now the voice of the Corporate Oligarchy. But from the ashes of this economy will rise the Fifth Estate, the People, who are already demanding truth and transparency and it's fueled by the Internet. The movement started in Latin America but is now heading north and building momentum. This is what the global elite fear most and it cannot be defeated: Allen L Roland
It was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn who wrote ~ " You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power."

America has been looted by Wall Street, the Banking Barons and the Corporate oligarchy but a staggering Main Street, robbed of everything, is slowly arising from their stupor, awakened by the Internet, and are beginning to demand truth and transparency ~ the first important steps toward freedom, true democracy and the resurrection of the fifth Estate ( the people).

Watch Ohio Rep Marcy Kaptur and Simon Johnson, MIT Sloan School of Management, being interviewed by Bill Moyers as they confirm the Coup d'etat by the Wall Street Mega Banks, the shutdown of Congressional oversight and the strong likelihood of a major Depression unless Obama finds a spine. http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/10092009/watch.html

And the current Administration Health Care Reform package is, in reality, without a true public option, a bailout for the too big to fail Insurance giants who want their pound of flesh along with the Mega banks ~ and, of course, at the expense of Main street and the American Taxpayer.

It was Carl Sagan who wrote ~ " One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."

America gave away it's power after 9/11 by allowing ourselves to be bamboozled by the Cheney/Bush administration who seized and abused their executive power while flying the banner of the War On Terror. President Obama is riding that same white horse of unlimited executive power as he gets ready to substantially increase our presence in Afghanistan ~ while Congress and the fourth estate ( Main Steam Press ) fall dutifully and lock step in line.

The Fifth Estate ( the American Public ) drank the Cheney/Bush kool aid and are now beginning to wake up and clearly see the bamboozle that they willingly bought into and that is, in many ways, still being perpetrated by the Obama administration.

In that regard, please read John Pilger's Breaking The Great Australian Silence ~ A speech pilger gave on November 6, 2009 while accepting the Peace Prize from the Sidney Peace Foundation.

Pilger's candid remarks directly relate to Australia's Rudd government but also to the Obama administration ~ " According to the great whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, a military coup has taken place in the United States, with the Pentagon now ascendant in every aspect of foreign policy.
It doesn't matter who is president ~ George Bush or Barack Obama. Indeed, Obama has stepped up Bush's wars and started his own war in Pakistan. Like Bush, he is threatening Iran, a country Hillary Clinton said she was prepared to "annihilate". Iran's crime is its independence.
Having thrown out America's favorite dictator, the Shah, Iran is the only resource-rich Muslim country beyond American control. It doesn't occupy anyone else's land and hasn't attacked any country ~ unlike Israel, which is nuclear-armed and dominates and divides the Middle East on America's behalf."

Pilger correctly and refreshingly summarizes America's record while calling ourselves The arsenal of freedom ~ " Since the second world war, the arsenal of freedom has overthrown 50 governments, including democracies, and crushed some 30 liberation movements. Millions of people all over the world have been driven out of their homes and subjected to crippling embargos. Bombing is as American as apple pie .. More than 800 American bases are ready for war and these bases protect a system that allows one per cent of humanity to control 40 per cent of wealth: a system that bails out just one bank with $180 billion."

Pilger speaks of breaking the great Australian silence and uses a famous Shelley quote to make his point ~

Rise like lions after slumber

In unvanquishable number

Shake your chains to earth like dew

Which in sleep has fallen on you

Ye are many - they are few


And these words are completely appropriate for the great American silence which can only be broken by the awakening of the fifth estate ~ the American public. Pilger correctly senses that now is that moment ~

" But we need to make haste. An historic shift is taking place. The major western democracies are moving towards a corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity,every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies ~ socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war.
This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food.

How do we change this ?

We start by looking beyond the stereotypes and clichés that are fed to us as news. Tom Paine warned long ago that if we were denied critical knowledge, we should storm what he called the Bastille of words. Tom Paine did not have the internet, but the internet on its own is not enough. We need an Australian glasnost, the Russian word from the Gorbachev era, which broadly means awakening, transparency, diversity, justice, disobedience. It was Edmund Burke who spoke of the press as a Fourth Estate. I propose a people's Fifth Estate that monitors, deconstructs and counters the official news. In every news room, in every media college, teachers of journalism and journalists themselves need to be challenged about the part they play in the bloodshed, inequity and silence that is so often presented as normal.

The public are not the problem. It's true some people don't give a damn ~ but millions do, as I know from the responses to my own films. What people want is to be engaged ~ a sense that things matter, that nothing is immutable, that unemployment among the young and poverty among the old are both uncivilized and wrong. What terrifies the agents of power is the awakening of people: of public consciousness.

This is already happening in countries in Latin America where ordinary people have discovered a confidence in themselves they did not know existed. We should join them before our own freedom of speech is quietly withdrawn and real dissent is outlawed as the powers of the police are expanded.

"The struggle of people against power," wrote Milan Kundera, "is the struggle of memory against forgetting." http://www.zcommunications.org/zspace/commentaries/4036

We are many and they are few ~ it's time for action. Prepare to nonviolently resist. It was Cesar Chavez who said ~ The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating.

Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2009/11/13.html

Freelance Online columnist Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews and speaking engagements ( allen@allenroland.com )

Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net

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Famous Scottish UFO Left Evidence, Investigated by Forensic Police

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The only UFO encounter ever to have a full police forensic crime scene investigation.

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IT IS an X-File that remains unsolved and still fascinates UFO enthusiasts all over the world.

This week saw the anniversary of one the planet’s most intriguing UFO mysteries – that happened right here in West Lothian.

He didn’t see little green men exactly, but 30 years ago forester Bob Taylor had a remarkable encounter with a UFO at Dechmont Law in Livingston.

Experts say it is the only one ever to have left tangible and recorded evidence, has been verified by the authorities and was the subject of a full police investigation.

To mark the event, West Lothian film company Waterborn TV have recorded a fascinating new documentary, The West Lothian Question, which includes an interview with the late Mr Taylor, which can be seen on YouTube.

The incident took place on November 9, 1979 in broad daylight when Mr Taylor came across a large object in a clearing.

Not only did he see the UFO but also two spherical ‘robots’ dropped from the object and grasped him, pulling him over.

Both police and ufologists say this encounter is unique because it appeared to leave evidence to support the story with strange marks in the clearing where the incident took place and inexplicable damage to Mr Taylor’s trousers, long johns and skin.

Realising that time was passing and those concerned were getting older, Waterborn Productions founders Duncan McKay and John Forsyth, recorded their documentary in a bid to get to the bottom of the inexplicable event.

Mr Taylor has since passed away and the documentary has been released on YouTube this week to mark the 30th anniversary of the sighting.....MORE

The 2012 Shift in Consciousness: 5 Steps to a World Transformed

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People love markers. They love Birthdays, New Years, the New Millennium, and 2012. They hope that these dates will bring the change they desire. In actuality, it is only by raising our consciousness that we can achieve a more loving, peaceful, and healthy world.

The dates will come and go but we can change our consciousness right now.

The 5 steps listed below are very helpful in raising our consciousness and creating a "World Transformed."

Grant

Excerpted from Century City News, "2012 5 Steps to a World Transformed"

1. Envision a new way of being.
Creating a world that works for all life on Planet Earth begins with envisioning what that world might look like. Imagine it, write it down, and share your vision through conversations or a blog. Listen to other’s visions and find what you hold in common. Set an intention to work with others to bring about this vision. Join or create an organization that carries forward your vision.

2. Understand that everything is connected.
The transformational consciousness shift will happen when people recognize that everything in the universe is connected. Science and inner wisdom teach us this basic truth. Each form of life is a unique expression of an interconnected whole and can influence the whole. This understanding is empowering but carries with it the responsibility to contribute in positive ways in service to the whole.

3. Choose an Earth-friendly lifestyle.
If you must move because of Earth-changes or lack of basic resources such as food, water and transportation, plan ahead where you would go, how you would get there, and what you would take with you.
n the event of disrupted communication systems and loss of power as a result of predicted solar flares, create a back-up system or learn to live off the grid.
Learn to live simply and sustainably on the Earth. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Calculate your carbon footprint and your use of natural resources and limit your consumption so that all may have enough and Earth can heal from human misuse and overuse of resources

4. Thrive in a new, sustainable economy
If the global economy continues its decline, create a new kind of economy in your community that is fair for everyone, using available resources. Create a local system of bartering goods and services and possibly a local currency. Support local micro-businesses and set up means of trade with neighboring communities. Grow food in community gardens, whether you live in the city, the suburbs, or a rural area.

5. Create community and an action plan.
In the event of severe Earth-changes and economic collapse, you will need a community for mutual support. Start to build that now with family, friends, and neighbors. Have a disaster preparedness plan for your community and companion animals. Establish basic food and water sources, housing, health care, and education needs and how they will be provided. Ensure that you have all the skill sets and experience you need in your community.

No matter what scenario lies ahead for 2012, you will be prepared if you take these five steps. There’s no need to fear the future, despite all the dire predictions, if you have set a vision and taken steps to ensure that life on Planet Earth will thrive beyond 2012.

Dr. Laura Dunham is the author of “Spiritual Wisdom for Planet in Peril: Preparing for 2012 and Beyond” (Langdon Street Press). Visit her online at www.healingandwisdom.com and www.2012iscoming.com.

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Professor Claims You can Avoid Death and Ascend to the New Earth

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This is interesting. But it seems to me that if you have a physical body it will die. Or at least that is what I have noticed in 100% of my observations.

If there is any ascension it will likely occur after death. But books, religion, and spirituality often depend on the fantastic to sell.

It will be interesting to see if the good professor ever tastes death. My hunch is that he will die like the rest of us.

But there is likely some valuable information in the book and that is why I post the article.

Still, I think our focus should not be in ascending to some new earth or heaven here after but on making our world into a livable, sustainable, beautiful, and healthy planet now.

Grant

Source: e-releases

OZARK, Mo., Nov. 12, 2009 — In his new nonfiction book, “You Can Avoid Physical Death: Physical Body Ascension to the New Earth” (published by iUniverse), Dr. Robert E. Pettit meticulously outlines the spiritual disciplines and mental responsibilities that are needed to ascend to a developing higher frequency planet (”New Earth”) and thus avoid physical death at the hands of a collapsing damaged low frequency planet Earth.

Drawing upon his 33 years of University research and 18 years of subtle energy (spiritual) manipulations, Dr. Pettit eloquently discusses the relationships between the sciences and spirituality in a way that interested readers can access and apply to their lives before the end of the current age, around 2012 and beyond.

Moreover, Dr. Pettit quotes many references to indicate that Earth will soon be unable to support human life. During these changing times humans will be faced with the following choice: either to die or ascend to a parallel “New Earth.” Based upon the energy principles outlined by Albert Einstein, Dr. Pettit discusses similar principles about the direction of human evolution and procedures for developing your new high frequency energy bodies. Once those frequencies are obtained, your new physical forms can live for thousands of years. Dr. Pettit explains how one might achieve this incredible existence by learning and practicing the following principles:

• How to make the ultimate choice to ascend by creating a less dense physical body
• How to understand your identity and why you are present on Earth now
• How to shift one’s dimensional consciousness from the 3rd density to the 5th density
• How to practice love, avoid fear, accept change, and understand space-time
• How to clear out karma, and release one’s false beliefs, worry, sickness, and pain
• How to evaluate several Universal Laws and live those laws in your daily life
• And much more about coming changes related to “The Shift” and “Photon Belt”

Not since American transcendentalist Henry Thoreau published his renowned “Walden” has a book been so integral to the future of human survival and spirituality. Discover the multi-dimensional potential of your consciousness and prepare for a spiritual awakening beyond your imagination. In the process learn how you can enjoy a new world (”New Earth”) void of suffering, pollution, crime, and war in this complete ascension guide.

Dr. Pettit, an eighty-one year young retired professor, has been teaching for over 60 years. He taught Sunday school classes, High School sciences, and electronic guidance systems for the U.S. Air Force. He was a University of Missouri Instructor for seven years, a Professor at Texas A&M University for 26 years and Chairman of the Board for the Subtle Energy Research Corporation (researching energy manipulations) for eight years.

“You Can Avoid Physical Death”

Available from: http://www.iUniverse.com, http://www.bn.com, and http://www.amazon.com.

Watch Senator Predict Financial Crisis--10 Years Ago

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Byron Dorgan has fought hard for working people. He has often been a force against ruthless globalization and the powerful financial interests that control this country.

Watch him predict the future

Grant

Source: Huffington Post

He got it right last time.

Senator Byron Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota, was one of eight senators who stood up to oppose the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act in 1999. That repeal, which was signed into law by President Clinton exactly 10 years ago today, broke down the barriers between commercial banking and investment banking, and led to the growth of behemoth financial firms that were able to take enormous risks with impunity, because they were "too big to fail."

"I think we will in 10 years' time look back and say we should not have done this," Dorgan said back then. The video of his speech has become something of a cult favorite for wonks -- ten years, a $700 billion bailout and a major financial crisis later.....MORE